Yesterday it was announced that GNOME 3.0 is delayed till next year. The extra time has given the Shell Developers some more time to play around with new concepts and they have come up a new mockup. Here are the new mockups.

Linux/GNOME for decades has been trying to copy windows and Mac user interfaces. I actually like to see that they are finally going on their own tangent. I could move Linux to being it's own OS not a clone of Unix, Windows, OSX.